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How to Access

Select Extensions → Language Manager from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation or click the icon Language in the control center.

Description

In the Language Manager you can set the default Language for both the Front-end and Back-end of your Joomla! web site.

Screenshot

Column Headers

The Installed tab has the following column titles. These details are fetched from the XML file included in the language pack.

Num. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference.

Radiobutton. Allows you to choose a language and set it as the default.

Language. Item language.

Language Tag. The language tag corresponding to the language above.

Location. Whether the language is the front end or backend (note this is chosen from the Toolbar Links at the top of the page

Default. The default language of the site, marked with a yellow graphical asterisk in this column. Note: to every user a language can be assigned (see "User Management"), user from groups "Administrator" and "Super Administrator" can select their preferred language themself at login.

Version. The version number of the installed language.

Date. The creation date of the language.

Author. The name of the language translator is displayed in this column.

Author E-mail. The e-mail address of the translator.

Options

Click the Options button to open the Language Manager Options window which lets you configure this component.

Buttons Common to All Tabs

At the top right of the Options modal window you will see the toolbar.

Save. Saves the language options and stays in the current screen.

Save & Close. Saves the language options and closes the current screen.

Cancel/Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.

Permissions Tab

This screen allows you to set the component permissions in Joomla. This is important to consider if you have sites with many different user categories all of whom need to have different accessibilities to the component. The screenshot below describes what you should see and the text below that describes what each permission level gives the user access to:

You work on one Group at a time by opening the slider for that group. You change the permissions in the Select New Settings drop-down list boxes. The options for each value are Inherited, Allowed, or Denied. The Calculated Setting column shows you the setting in effect. It is either Not Allowed (the default), Allowed, or Denied. Note that the Calculated Setting column is not updated until you press the Save button in the toolbar. To check that the settings are what you want, press the Save button and check the Calculated Settings column.

Open the language manager option screens (the modal window these options are in)

Access Administration Interface

Open the language manager manger screens

Create

Create new languages and string overrides in the component

Delete

Delete existing languages and string overrides in the component

Edit

Edit existing languages and string overrides in the component

Edit State

Change an languages and string overrides state (Publish, Unpublish, Archive, and Trash) in the component.

There are two very important points to understand from this screen. The first is to see how the permissions can be inherited from the parent Group. The second is to see how you can control the default permissions by Group and by Action. This provides a lot of flexibility. For example, if you wanted Shop Suppliers to be able to have the ability to create an article about their product, you could just change their Create value to "Allowed". If you wanted to not allow members of Administrator group to delete objects or change their state, you would change their permissions in these columns to Inherited (or Denied). It is also important to understand that the ability to have child groups is completely optional. It allows you to save some time when setting up new groups. However, if you like, you can set up all groups to have Public as the parent and not inherit any permissions from a parent group.

Toolbar

At the top right you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

Default. Makes the selected language the default language. The default star symbol () will show in the Default column, indicating that this is now the default language.

Quick Tips

Users can use any Language from the list of installed Languages, either by having it assigned in the User Manager or by filling out a Menu Item Manager - New/Edit - User Form Layout at the Front end. This will cause the Joomla! system prompts to be generated in this Language just for this User. For example, if a User chooses Spanish as their language, then the Search Module will show with prompts in Spanish.

This User's choice is not affected by the Default Language set for the Front-end.

Changing a User's Language or the Default Language does not affect the web site's Articles and other content.

Important: Do not delete the default language files (for example, with FTP). This will create errors on both the Front-end and Back-end.

If desired, you can show the Front-end site in one Language and show the Back-end administration pages in a different Language. Also, individual articles can be configured to use a different language in the Advanced Parameter pane when editing the Article.